Course · Interpersonal Skills
Remedies
What the court can actually give: damages and their limits, restitution, specific performance and injunctions, declarations, punitive damages, costs, and how to choose, combine, collect and settle.
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Clients do not come to a lawyer for a right. They come for a result: money, the return of something, an end to something or a decision that settles a dispute. The law of remedies connects the two, and it is the part of law that decides what a case is actually worth. It is also the part that students meet in fragments: a chapter on damages in contract, a few pages on injunctions in property, a note on restitution in equity. This course teaches it as a whole, from the claimant’s point of view. In seven modules and a capstone you learn the map of remedies and the old division of law and equity; how compensatory damages are measured and what limits cut them down; how restitution takes back a gain and recovers profits from wrongs; when a court orders a person to act or to stop; how declarations, punitive damages and costs work; and how to choose, combine, collect and settle. It is written mainly in the common-law tradition, in jurisdiction-neutral terms with invented cases, and it tells you where systems differ so that you know what to check where you work.
The Curriculum
The remedial map: rights and remedies, the families of remedy, law and equity and what the client wants→
Rights and remedies, the six families of remedy, law and equity, discretion and the maxims, and what the client wants. Practice: Which Family, What Does the Client Want and Spot the Remedy Mistake.
Compensatory damages: expectation, reliance, restoration, cost of cure and how loss is measured→
The compensation principle, three contract measures, the tort measure, cost of cure against loss in value, future loss and interest. Practice: Which Measure, Cost of Cure and the Contract Remedies Calculator.
Limits on damages: remoteness, certainty, mitigation, fault, penalties and caps→
Remoteness, certainty, mitigation, contributory fault, penalties and liquidated damages, caps and exclusion clauses. Practice: Recoverable or Not, Mitigation and Spot the Limit.
Restitution and unjust enrichment: giving back the gain, profits from wrongs and proprietary claims→
Gain against loss, the four questions, unjust factors, quantum meruit, profits from wrongs, tracing and constructive trusts, and defences. Practice: Unjust Factor or Not, Which Remedy and the Restitution Checker.
Specific performance and injunctions: when a court orders a person to act or stop→
The damages-adequacy gateway, specific performance, prohibitory and mandatory injunctions, interim relief, undertakings, restraint covenants and contempt. Practice: Available or Not, Interim Injunction and the Equitable Remedy Checker.
Declarations, nominal and punitive damages, and costs: the remedies around the edges→
Declarations, nominal and contemptuous damages, aggravated and punitive damages, the American rule and loser-pays, fee-shifting and offers. Practice: Right Remedy, Costs Rule and the Costs Shifter tool.
Choosing and enforcing remedies: election, double recovery, collecting a judgment and settling→
Combining and electing remedies, double recovery, collecting a judgment, freezing assets, limitation periods and structuring a settlement. Practice: Combine or Elect, Collect It and the Remedy Selector tool.
Capstone: Capstone: the Harrowgate brewery→
A late and defective tank, a rival using the recipe and a printer that went bust. Map the wrongs, measure the loss, choose the remedies, count the costs and plan the settlement.
What It Covers
“You will be able to say, for any wrong, what remedies are possible, which is best, what limits apply and what the client will realistically end up with.”
- Seven modules and a capstone that follow a matter from the wrong to the money: the remedial map, compensatory damages, the limits on damages, restitution, coercive orders, declarations, punitive damages and costs, and choosing, collecting and settling.
- Three working tools with invented data: a Remedy Selector that ranks the remedies worth asking for with reasons, a Restitution Checker that walks the elements of unjust enrichment and shows personal and proprietary remedies, and a Costs Shifter that shows who pays what under the American and loser-pays rules, with fee-shifting and settlement offers. It also uses the Contract Remedies Calculator and the Equitable Remedy Checker.
- Starts from what the client wants and ends with whether the remedy can be collected, which is how practice works and how few textbooks teach.
- Honest about the limits: remedies differ between systems, courts keep discretion, and the tools show structure and not outcomes.
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Common questions
- How is this different from the remedies chapters in my contract or tort course?
- Those chapters teach the measures of damages for one kind of wrong. This course teaches remedies across all wrongs: how to choose between damages, restitution and coercive orders, how limits such as remoteness and mitigation apply, and how to collect and settle. It is intended to sit beside your substantive courses.
- Which legal system does it follow?
- It is written mainly in the common-law tradition (England and Wales, the United States, Canada, Australia and similar systems), in jurisdiction-neutral terms with invented cases. It points out where systems differ, for example on punitive damages, costs and the force of precedent, and tells you to check where you work.
- Is it useful for the bar exam or for practice?
- Yes. Remedies are tested in many bar and qualifying examinations and drive practical decisions about what to claim, how to settle and what to advise. The course is not tied to any exam's syllabus, so check what yours requires.
- Are the tools real data?
- No. All cases, businesses, people and figures are invented. The tools help you think and cannot tell you what a court will do: the Remedy Selector lists the remedies worth asking for, the Restitution Checker applies the elements and the Costs Shifter simplifies the rules on costs. They run in your browser without sending anything anywhere.
- Does it cover remedies against governments or in criminal law?
- It focuses on civil remedies between private parties, with notes on how public law and statutes change them. It does not cover criminal penalties or the full detail of public-law remedies, which are taught in the administrative law and criminal courses.
- How do I get the Certificate of Completion?
- Sign in, pass each module quiz and keep a course average of at least 75. The certificate is then issued and emailed to you automatically.
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